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The Telluride Region Chamber of Commerce will operate as an umbrella organization, representing its membership and providing a host of much-needed products and services.
Telluride Public Works Project Manager Karen Guglielmone projects that this year’s portion of the project will come in $500,000 over-budget.
With its management agreement with the Montrose Memorial Hospital coming to an end on July 31, the Basin Clinic Board is desperately seeking a way to keep its rural clinic , located in Naturita, op...
There will be 4X4 competitions, freestyle motocross demos, and a high-octane NSPA-sanctioned truck pull, plus a Mud Run 5K, mud volleyball, mud tug o’ war, mud horseshoes and a host of clean and di...

JIM DAVIDSON (Courtesy photo)
Telluride native Jim Davidson, founder of the iconic San Miguel Journal, died at home in Crestone, surrounded by his family, on Sunday, April 21.

BACK TO BASICS - Montrose Archery Xpress co-owners Jesse and Heath McCombs joined the army soon after graduating from Montrose High School and served overlapping tours in Iraq. (Courtesy photo)
Heath and Jesse McCombs joined the Army after graduating from Montrose High School, well over a decade ago. Today, thanks to a boost from the Warrior Resource Center, their new business, Montrose A...
Attorneys representing the City of Montrose are seeking the dismissal of an appeal by the owner of the 107-pound American Allaunt canine named Dutch sentenced to death after attacking a woman last ...

IMPROVED SNOWPACK - While spring storms have improved the statewide snowpack to 92 percent of average, river basins in the west and southwest portions of Colorado are remain well below average. (Courtesy image)
While snowpack is up over last year, the amount of water in state reservoirs is down. The Climate Prediction Center at NOAA is forecasting above average temperatures for the summer and persistent ...

SCHEDULING CONFLICT – Ouray Police Department officers Justin Crandall and Tony Schmidt expressed their frustration with a newly imposed schedule at a work session with the Ouray City Council last Thursday. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
The police chief stressed that the new work schedule is not a good fit for his small, understaffed department which optimally should have five full-time officers,
Montrose resident Blaine Tankersley died in an accident in the southbound lane of Colo. Hwy. 550 early Tuesday morning.
Explosive charges will send energy waves into the earth and the reflected waves will be recorded on the surface and then processed to provide an underground geologic profile map.
New program offers small businesses educational programming in areas of starting a new business, using QuickBooks, Microsoft Excel and developing a professional business plan.
‘BIDDER 70’ – An Earth Day film screening of Gage & Gage’s Bidder 70 documentary will coincide with Tim DeChristopher’s release from prison, complete with a post-screening live-stream appearance from the recently released environmental activist. (Photos courtesy of Gage & Gage)
Earth Day film screening of Gage & Gage’s Bidder 70 to coincide with Tim DeChristopher’s release from prison, complete with a post-screening live-stream appearance from the recently released enviro...
DUST RUN? – After yet another wind-driven dust storm slammed the southwestern San Juans Tuesday night, a layer of dust completely covered the moguls beneath the Telluride-Mountain Village Gondola on Kids Hill Wednesday morning. Despite the dumping of much-needed moisture in recent weeks, the dust layers adversely affect the snowpack’s longevity, speeding up runoff. Earth Day will be observed around the globe on Monday, April 22. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
In honor of the occasion, the City of Montrose has lined up a whole week’s worth of events celebrating its commitment to a cleaner, greener, healthier community and planet.
The bill simplifies permitting for small hydro development on Bureau of Reclamation facilities by eliminating duplicative environmental analysis.
Council decided to err on the side of simplicity and allow enforcement of the city’s noise ordinance to continue to be complaint-driven and handled on a case-by-case basis.
Montrose's new Retail Sales Enhancement plan features low administration that councilors say mark a good start in reinvesting tax dollars into growth in the business and tourism sectors.
Ridgway’s town council got a first look at a new logo, approved outside tables for the True Grit, and gave the Weaver family another two years to build a required pedestrian bridge.
READY FOR INFILL – The roads were built and the infrastructure
in place before the housing bust of 2006. Today, at long last, real-estate sales
are trending upwards, although well below asking prices from the top of the housing boom.
Comparable Sales Research’s Lynn Vogel reports sales of single- family homes are up significantly,
from recent years, and that vacant city lots are trending upwards, as well. (Photo by William Woody)
"There's the glimmer of hope that things are starting to move up," Community Development Director Kerwin Jensen told Montrose City councilors early this month.
RECOVERY – Rescuers lowered the litter through technical terrain in Black Canyon National Park Friday to retrieve the body of fallen hiker Marion Gamble. (Photo courtesy National Park Service)
Investigators believe the man fell near his intended route in the national park.
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SAFETY FIRST – Surrounded by students, Gov. Hickenlooper signed a bill into law at Ouray School on Thursday afternoon that seeks to enhance school safety across Colorado by providing support at the state level to hire more school resource officers. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
RATS’ NEST – A rack of demo bikes at last year’s Ridgway Area Trails (RAT) Festival in Hartwell Park. This year’s 3rd annual will again feature trail building and skills clinics, along with a new Friday beer-and-shorts film night at the Sherbino Theater. (Courtesy photo)
VOLUNTEER Linda Granzow worked twine through spent round casings at the Welcome Home Montrose Warrior Resource Center last week. (Photo by William Woody)
WARRIOR WIND CHIMES – Welcome Home Montrose staff Emily Smith painted ceramic part of wind chimes at the Welcome Home Montrose Warrior Resource Center last week. (Photo by William Woody)
BACK HOME IN TELLURIDE – members of Telluride’s Volunteer Fire Department helped move the Galloping Goose No. 4 back to its home next to the San Miguel County Courthouse on May 16. The railbus spent the last four years in Ridgway while it was refurbished. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)

ROBERT JUSTIS (Courtesy photo)
